Day 389 of the Invasion of Ukraine: Putin visited occupied Mariupol

Day 389 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

• Putin visited the newly annexed territories for the first time and walked around Mariupol
• Ukraine war: Russia used cluster bombs, killed and injured in Kramatorsk
• Zelensky announced new military aid from NATO
• Kyiv imposed sanctions on Iranian and Syrian officials
• Germany will arrest Putin if he steps on its territory
• In Moscow, arrests are made after whistleblowing in the subway

Putin visited the newly annexed territories for the first time and walked around Mariupol

President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the war-torn port of Mariupol over the weekend - his first trip to Russian-occupied and annexed Ukrainian territories since the attack on Ukraine more than a year ago.

On Saturday, he made an unannounced visit to the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed on March 18, 2014, just two days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes.

Putin has yet to publicly comment on the ICC order, but his trips to Ukrainian territory that only a handful of countries around the world recognize as Russian have been seen as an act of defiance.

Mariupol fell in May 2022 after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war, marking Russia's first major victory since its army failed to capture Kyiv and instead focused on southeastern Ukraine.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation and Europe (OSCE) said Russia's bombing of a maternity hospital in the city was a war crime. It is believed that in Mariupol, which...